Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On Historical Truths

Well said: The “real” is, of course, always apparitional, always a reductionist fantasy [...]. Yet acknowledging the fantasy of “reality” does not, I think, reduce history to fiction; historians can still seek out a more multivalent and still substantial “actual” and “plausible.”

Judith M. Bennet, “‘Lesbian-like’ and the Social History of Lesbianisms,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 9 no. 1-2 (2009): 1-2ff.

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